MAKE spent the day in a marathon 8 hour session laser etching tons of gadgets at the Gizmodo gallery! The gallery was a showcase of high tech as well as retro devices, it was also for a good cause – Toys for Tots. Congrats to Brian Lam, Chris Mascari and their team for putting together a great show, it’s going on until Sunday, so if you’re in NYC pop by.

That last one reminds me of the first time I encountered the concept of fonts–I thought they were more like stamps, and was trying to figure out how anyone could make even a simple sentence with words like “arial” and “goudy”. I was pretty young…